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Thordarson Library with Fireplace

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Description: Interior view of the Thordarson library featuring a massive fireplace with two men posing on either side of it. The building is of stone, with arched windo...
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Public School

Date: 1921
Description: View up hill of two men standing at the entrance of the public school. There is a hand-pump near the entrance, and a bell tower on the roof of the school.
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Methodist Evangelical Church

Date: 1931
Description: Exterior view from across street of the church. It has a bell steeple, stained glass windows, double french doors with an archway, and a wall gable facade....
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Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Christmas Joy

Date: 1939
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with a man and three boys positioning a ladder to hang holiday decorations on the exterior of the settle...
Postcard

Commercial Hotel

Date: 06 28 1915
Description: Photographic postcard of the exterior of the three-story Commercial Hotel. The building has a false front. Two women stand on the balcony and two men stand...
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Hotel White

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Description: Exterior view of the Hotel White. Four men and one woman are posed on the porch. On the roof of the hotel is a widow's walk.
Postcard

Baptist Church

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Description: Photographic postcard view of the exterior of the Baptist Church with a bell tower above the entrance. There is a group of children gathered on the front s...
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U.S. Army Machine Gunnery School

Date: 1918
Description: View across snow towards a child standing near the United States Army machine gunnery school, which is surrounded by other buildings. The towers and onions...
Print

Café Martin Supper Menu

Date: 11 19 1906
Description: One-page supper menu from Café Martin, with a watercolor illustration by Louis Renault of a man and a woman walking down the sidewalk arm-in-arm, a driver...
Photograph

Eliphalet Miner Home

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Description: An Italianate style home, with a small balcony above the front entrance. The windows on the main section of the house are arched and have matching arched s...
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Conrad Seipp and Family

Date: 1884
Description: Chicago brewer Conrad Seipp (1825-1890), seated at left, poses with his second wife, Catherine Orb Seipp (1846-1920), seated to his left, with other family...
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Conrad Seipp Mansion

Date: 1925
Description: View across street towards a boy and girl standing on the street corner across from the granite mansion built for Conrad Seipp at 3300 South Michigan Avenu...
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Howard and Louise Greene

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Description: Howard and Louise Greene posing with their young children in front of the entrance of their house at 1831 North Cambridge Avenue.
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Carriage

Date: 1890
Description: A team of two horses is harnessed to a highly polished carriage with a side lamp. The driver is holding a long whip and is wearing a top hat, winter coat a...
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Brumder House

Date: 1890
Description: A view of the south (Wells Street) side of the two-story brick Italianate house at the corner of 10th Street purchased by George Brumder in 1882. An uniden...
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Pine Lake House in Winter

Date: 1929
Description: An elevated winter view looking downshill towards the shingle style summer home of Herbert P. Brumder, the youngest son of George and Henriette Brandhorst ...
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Pine Lake Home in Winter

Date: 1929
Description: A winter view of the lake-facing side of Herbert P. Brumder's shingle style summer house on Pine Lake. Two children, one lying on a sled, are posing in the...
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New House

Date: 1905
Description: Three men, identified on the negative envelope as "Mr. Miller, Boots, and Lavine," are posing on the roof of a large two-story cement block house under con...
Postcard

Creamery

Date: 02 18 1909
Description: Text on front reads: "Creamery, Story, Wis." Two men pose in front of a two-story, clapboard creamery with a lean-to. The building has a cupola and a stair...
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McCormick Mill Restoration Project

Date: 09 1937
Description: View of side of the McCormick Mill, built into the side of a hill on the right. There are small windows, one on the lower level, and another on the upper l...

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